complete verse (Exodus 31:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 31:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “how (he) engraves things and shapes gold, silver and bronze,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “He will do all kinds of artistic work of gold, silver and the work of bronze,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “to make beautiful things from gold, silver and bronze,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And so he will be able to do artwork with gol and silva and bras.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “So, he be wise for drawing/designing of thing with forging of gold red and gold white and metal red.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “He can engrave skillful designs in gold, silver, and bronze.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 32:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 32:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “Moses said that, ‘It is not like the joy of victory or shouting of those who are defeated but, those are just people who are singing (and dancing).’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Moses answered: this is not the sound of those having victory, nor the sound of those having been defeated. I (emph.) am hearing the sound of singing.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Moises answered, ‘That is not a sound of victory or defeat, but-rather that (is) the sound of singing.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But Moses said,
    ‘This is not [the case]. Their noise is not like people winning a fight.
    And it’s not like people’s enemies winning [against] them either.
    But I hear their sound like people singing.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And Moses answered for him it «Not be shout of war that I hear. I hear shout of music.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “But Moses/I replied, ‘No, that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated in a battle What I hear is the sound of loud singing!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 33:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 33:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “Then Moses told God that, ‘If you are not going with us, do not tell us to move away from here.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “He said to Him, ‘If you yourselves are not going with us do not take us ahead from here.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Moises said to him, ‘If you do not go with us, do not send- us -away from this place.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And then Moses spoke to him again like this, ‘If you don’t come with us (excl.), it’s good for us to not leave this area.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And Moses also say God like this «If you not with me will be present together, do not me say we (excl.) must leave from this place.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • Mandarin Chinese (Catholic) Sigao translation: “Moses said to the Lord: If you yourself don’t go, you should not make us go from here.”
  • English: “Moses/I replied, ‘If you do not go with me, do not force us to leave this place.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 34:24)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 34:24:

  • Kupsabiny: “And when I have chased away all people who live there, then the land will be expanded for you. There is completely no one who will envy (take over) your land when you (plur.) go three times every year to pray to me your God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I will drive out the nations before you. I will enlarge the territory for the country. No one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-drive-out the people to the land which I will-give you (plur.), and I will-expand your territory. And no one will-attack and conquer/take-by-force your nation in times you come before me, the LORD your God, of those three feast each year.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And the tribes which today are living in your (pl.) land, I will drive them away so that they go far from you. And I will move over the boundary marker of your land so that it becomes big. And three times year by year, when you leave your villages and so come and gather together to me, your Chief God, it won’t be possible for any of your enemies to dare (lit. do their bravery) to take your land.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Therefore, when you come my face on day three these yearly, it will lack enemies your which seek they might take away ground your, because I will chase away nation other out from before you, I will make place your it be great.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “I will expel the people-groups that live in the land where you will be, and I will cause your territory to become very large. As a result, no group will try to conquer your country if you come to worship me each year during those three festivals.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 35:21)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 35:21:

  • Kupsabiny: “Each one whom his stomach/heart accepted (it) brought the things which are given/offered to God for the construction of the Tent, all the necessary things which match together with the sacrificial clothes/clerical robes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “to serve there and to sew the sacred garments.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All who wanted to offer to the LORD brought materials which-to-be use to make the Tent Meeting-Place and all the things-for-use of-it, and to make the clothing/garments of the priests.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “But Moses’ talk had convicted many people (lit. turned many people’s interiors), and so each of the ones who wanted to bring some of their things to the Chief, right then they brought their things to be their offering to him. Those things of theirs went for making God’s shelter, and for helping the work of his shelter, and for making the decorations for the people of offerings.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And they who desire it which touched heart they might give thing to Yaweh, they took everything which be necessary Dwelling-Tent-of-God with its things, with cloth of priests to make.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “Everyone who wanted to brought an offering to Yahweh. They brought some of the things that would be used to make the Sacred Tent and all the other items that would be used in the rituals, and the materials to make the sacred clothes for the priests.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 36:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 36:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “After that (they) prepared (a) sheep skin which is colored red to be used for covering the Tent and a skin/hide of a hippo to be put on top of that.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “They overlapped two canopies to cover the first tent. One was of ram skin dyed red, and another was of dolphin’s skin.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The top of this cover they covered-over with skin of the male sheep dyed red, and they also covered-over with good kind of leather.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And he made two more things for covering God’s shelter. One covering, he made from male sipsips’ skins on which they rubbed red paint. And above that covering, they made another covering from dugong skins.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “They also covered skins of sheep/goats red on top of tent, and they again covered skins of sheep/goats other which be hard on its head.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “They made two more covers for the Sacred Tent. They made one from rams’ skins that had been tanned/dyed red, and they made the top cover from goatskin leather.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 37:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 37:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “He also made for the table four rings and fixed (them) at the four corners of that table where the legs/stands were.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “He made four gold rings for the table. Then he fastened those rings to the top of the legs at the four corners.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Then they made four gold seemingly-rings, and attached it to the four legs of the table” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And also, he made four gol ring-handles for the table and then affixed them onto the table-top’s wide piece of gol so that it followed the table’s four legs. And so those ring-handles were holding two poles in order to be for the shouldering of the table.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “And they forge gold red four it be bored hole, sealed on foot of table above,” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “He made/cast four rings from gold and fastened the rings to the four corners of the table, one ring close to each leg of the table.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Exodus 38:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 38:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “All those curtains which were placed/arranged around that compound were woven and very expensive.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The curtains around the courtyard were made of fine linen.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “All the curtains around the yard/courtyard (were) fine linen.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Bariai: “And they took only good cloths for making that fence.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
  • Opo: “Those clothes [which] they hang , they make it with thread be good.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
  • English: “All the curtains around the courtyard were made from fine white linen.” (Source: Translation for Translators)